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• araq, arrack, rack

発音

• IPA: /əˈɹæk/, /ˈɛɹ.ɪk/

名詞

arak (usually uncountable, plural araks)

1. A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Levant.
   • 2005 January 25, “The return of arak”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     A rite of the grape harvest in the Christian villages dotting the Lebanon mountain range […] is the perfectly legal distillation of homemade arak. This smooth, cool, refreshing liquor, tasting of licorice with a soupçon of peppermint, remains the staple drink at Sunday lunch, an eat-till-you-drop extravaganza of small meze dishes.

   • 2015 February 6, Henry Jeffreys, “How to enjoy ouzo, even when you’re not on holiday”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     In Lebanon they have arak, in Turkey raki, and they even make something similar in Saudi Arabia. This is not so surprising as the Arabs were probably the first people to distil alcohol; alcohol is an Arabic word. “Arak” means “sweat” in Arabic, and describes the distillation process rather than what happens when you drink too much.

   • 2026 March 16, Richard Florida, “Could This Be the End of Dubai?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     My wife is Jordanian and has family who have lived and worked in Dubai and Abu Dhabi for years. During our time in the U.A.E., we ate with them, drank arak, watched them dance the dabke late into the evening.

2. Alternative spelling of arrack (an alcoholic drink distilled from coconut palm flowers or sugar cane)

語源 2

From Arabic أَرَاك (ʔarāk).

名詞

arak (usually uncountable, plural araks)

1. A toothbrush tree (Salvadora persica).
   • 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 51:

     They use perfume freely, paint their eyes with kohl, and are constantly polishing their teeth with twigs of green arak-wood.

Further reading

• arak (drink) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• kara, rak'a, akra, Kara